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Why I Walked Away From <em>War and Peace</em>... Forever

Why I Walked Away From War and Peace... Forever

John Maher on Lost Love, Broken Hearts, and Tolstoy

By John Maher | September 11, 2020

Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

Our Idea of Wagner Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him

Olivia Giovetti on Alex Ross's New Book About the Composer

By Olivia Giovetti | September 10, 2020

Matthew Salesses on How Profound Loss Changed the Shape of His Novel

Matthew Salesses on How Profound Loss Changed the Shape of His Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 10, 2020

Making Poems into Phantoms, One Broken Line at a Time

Making Poems into Phantoms, One Broken Line at a Time

Adam O. Davis Finds Ghostly Relics in His New Collection

By Adam O. Davis | September 10, 2020

On the Path to Understanding? <br>A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

On the Path to Understanding?
A Conversation with Claudia Rankine

Catherine Barnett Talks to the Author of Just Us

By Catherine Barnett | September 9, 2020

Mychal Denzel Smith on Believing In a Future That Doesn't Sacrifice Lives to Pandemics

Mychal Denzel Smith on Believing In a Future That Doesn't Sacrifice Lives to Pandemics

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | September 9, 2020

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The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | September 9, 2020

Matthew Salesses: Holding it Together, Falling Apart

By Matthew Salesses | September 8, 2020

"Tall." Claudia Rankine on Privilege, Seen and Unseen

By Claudia Rankine | September 8, 2020

The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home

The Wound of Multilingualism: On Surrendering the Languages of Home

Sulaiman Addonia: "The words died in me, and silence became my language."

By Sulaiman Addonia | September 8, 2020

For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing <br>in a Pandemic

For the Love of Mail: Letter Writing
in a Pandemic

Lauren Markham on the Daily Magic of the US Postal System

By Lauren Markham | September 4, 2020

Bill Hayes Writing About a Completely Normal Evening in New York

Bill Hayes Writing About a Completely Normal Evening in New York

Or, A Scene From the Before Times

By Bill Hayes | September 4, 2020

William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life's Smaller Moments

William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life's Smaller Moments

Sonny Brewer Remembers His Friend, a Master of the Southern Gothic

By Sonny Brewer | September 4, 2020

Joshua Bennett on the Fullness of Black Life in a Time of Siege

Joshua Bennett on the Fullness of Black Life in a Time of Siege

The Author of Owed Talks to Jesse McCarthy About BLM, Black Comedy, Teaching and More

By Jesse McCarthy | September 3, 2020

"Will I Come to a Miserable End?" Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

"He succeeds in inverting the order of farce and tragedy."

By Jenny Erpenbeck | September 3, 2020

<em>Behind the Mic</em>: On <em>Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger</em> by Lisa Donovan, read by the Author

Behind the Mic: On Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger by Lisa Donovan, read by the Author

A Moving Memoir of a Baker’s Life Story in Her Own Voice

By Behind the Mic | September 3, 2020

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